A young English teacher saved the lives of 30 students when he took______ of a bus after its driver suffered a serious heart attack. Guy Harvold,24, had ______ the students and three course leaders from Gatwick airport, and they were travelling to Bourme mouth to ______ their host families. They were going to ______ a course at the ABC Language School in Bournemouth where Harvold works as a ______.
Harvold, who has not ______ his driving test, said, "I realized the bus was out of control when I was ______ the students." The bus ran into trees at the side of the road and he ______the driver was slumped(倒伏) over the wheel. The driver didn't ______. He was unconscious. The bus______ a lamp post and it broke the glass on the front door before Harvold ______ to bring the bus to a stop. Police______ the young teacher's quick thinking. If he hadn't ______ quickly, there could have been a terrible______.
The bus driver never regained consciousness and died at Easy Surrey Hospital. He had worked regulary with the ______ and was very well regarded by the teachers and students. Harvold said, "I was ______ that no one else was hurt, but I hoped that the driver would ______.
The head of the language school told the local newspaper that the school is going to send Harvold on a weekend ______ to Dublin with a friend, thanking him for his ______. A local driving school has also offered him six ______driving lessons.
1.A. control B. care C. advantage D. note
2.A. taken in B. picked up C. tracked down D. helped out
3.A. greet B. thank C. invite D. meet
4.A. present B. introduce C. take D. organize
5.A. drive B. doctor C. librarian D. teacher
6.A. given B. marked C. passed D. conducted
7.A. speaking to B. waiting for C. returning to D. looking for
8.A. learned B. noticed C. mentioned D. doubted
9.A. sleep B. cry C. move D. recover
10.A. ran over B. went by C. carried D. hit
11.A. remembered B. continued C. prepared D. managed
12.A. witnessed B. recorded C. praised D. understood
13.A. appeared B. reacted C. escaped D. interrupted
14.A. delay B. accident C. mistake D. experience
15.A. airport B. hospital C. school D. police
16.A. happy B. fortunate C. touched D. sorry
17.A. survive B. retire C. relax D. succeed
18.A. project B. trip C. dinner D. duty
19.A. bravery B. skill C. quality D. knowledge
20.A. necessary B. easy C. different D. free
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It's surprising how much simple movement of the body can affect the way we think. Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights(领悟).
So if moving the body can have these effects, what about the clothes we wear? We're all well aware of how dressing up in different ways can make us feel more attractive, sporty or professional, depending on the clothes we wear, but can the clothes actually change cognitive(认知) performance or is it just a feeling?
Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention. The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn thought to have close attention to detail.
What they found was that people wearing white coats performed better than those who weren't. Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the Stroop Test(one way of measuing attention). The reserchrs call the effect "enclothed cognition," suggesting that all manner of different clothes probably affect our cognition in many differnt ways.
This opens the way for all sorts of clothes-based experiments. Is the writer who wears a fedora more creative? Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insightful? Does a chef's hat make the restaurant food taste better?
From now on I will only be editing artcles for PsyBlog while wearing a white coat to help keep the typing error count low. Hopefully you will be doing your part by reading PsyBlog in a cap and gown(学位服).
1.What is the main idea of the text?
A. Body movements change the way people think.
B. How people dress has an influencee on their feelings.
C. What people wear can affect their cognitive performance.
D. People doing different jobs should wear different clothes.
2.Adam and Galinsky's experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers'______.
A. insights B. movements
C. attention D. appearance
3.How does the author sound in the last paragraph?
A. Academic. B. Humorous.
C. Formal. D. Hopeful.
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There are energy savings to be made from all recyclable materials, sometimes huge savings. Recycling plastics and aluminum, for instance, uses only 5% to 10% as much energy as producing new plastic or smelting（提炼）aluminum.
Long before most of us even noticed what we now call "the environment," Buckminster Fuller said, "Pollution is nothing but the resources（资源）we are not harvesting. We allow them to be left around because we've been ignorant of their value." To take one example, let's compare the throwaway economy（经济）with a recycling economy as we feed a cat for life.
Say your cat weigh 5kg and eats one can of food each day. Each empty can of its food weights 40g. In a throwaway economy, you would throw away 5,475 cans over the cat's 15-year lifetime. That's 219kg of steel-more than a fifth of a ton and more than 40 times the cat's weight.
In a recycling economy, we would make one set of 100 cans to start with, then replace them over and over again with recycled cans. Since almost 3% of the metal is lost during reprocessing, we'd have to make an extra 10 cans each year. But in all, only 150 cans will be used up over the cat's lifetime-and we'll still have 100 left over for the next cat.
Instead of using up 219kg of steel, we've used only 6kg. And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we've also achieved the following significant savings: in energy use-47% to 74%; in air pollution-85%; in water pollution-35%; in water use-40%.
1.What does Buckminster Fuller say about pollution?
A. It is becoming more serious.
B. It destroys the environment.
C. It benefits the economy.
D. It is the resources yet to be used.
2.How many cans will be used up in a cat's 15-year lifetime in a recycling economy?
A. 50 B. 100
C. 150 D. 250
3.What is the author's purpose in writing the text?
A. To promote the idea of recycling.
B. To introduce an environmentalist.
C. To discuss the causes of pollution.
D. To defend the throwaway economy.
【推理关系】题干What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?☞文章内容In a recycling economy, we would make one set of 100 cans to start with, then replace them over and over again with recycled cans
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How to Remember What You Read
Reading is important. But the next step is making sure that you remember what you've read! 1.you may have just read the text. But the ideas, concepts and images（形象）may fly right out of your head. Here are a few tricks for remembering what you read.
● 2.
If the plot, characters, or word usage is confusing for you, you likely won't be able to remember what you read. It's a bit like reading a foreign language. If you don't understand what you're reading, how would you remember it? But there are a few things you can do... Use a dictionary; look up the difficult words.
● Are you connected?
Does a character remind you of a friend? Does the setting make you want to visit the place? Does the book inspire you, and make you want to read more? With some books, you may feel a connection right away. 3. How willing are you to make the connections happen?
● Read it; hear it; be it!
Read the lines. Then, speak them out loud. And, put some character into the words. When he was writing his novels, Charles Dickens would act out the parts of the characters. He'd make faces in the mirror, and change his voice for each character. 4.
● How often do you read?
If you read frequently, you'll likely have an easier time with remembering what you’re reading and what you've read. 5.As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better. You’ll learn to enjoy literature- as you remember what you read!
A. Are you confused?
B. Practice makes perfect.
C. What's your motivation?
D. Memory is sometimes a tricky thing.
E. Marking helps you remember what you read.
F. But other books require a bit more work on your part.
G. You can do the same thing when you are reading the text!
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Easy Ways to Build Vocabulary
It's not all that hard to build an advanced and large vocabulary. Like many things in life, it's 1.ongoing process, and the best part of the process is that there's enough room for improvement, 2.means you'll just keep getting better and better. Of course you have to work at it. You wouldn't think that a few 3.(month) of exercise in your teens would be enough 4. the rest of your life, and that's also true for building your vocabulary--you have to keep at it daily, and pretty soon you will find that you have an excellent vocabulary.
One of the 5.(effect) ways to build vocabulary is to read good books. You need to 6.(real) read at least one good book a week, preferably a classic. This isn't as hard as it 7.(sound), and it is far better than any other method because you improve your vocabulary while 8.(read) an interesting piece of literature. Another nice thing is that you learn both new words and 9.(they) use unconsciously, meaning that you will tend to use the words 10.(learn) this way in conversations almost automatically.
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假如你是李华，你们学校的外教Mr. Hall寒假不回国。你打算邀请他去你家里一起过春节。 文章内容需包含以下要点：
1. 时间 2. 家人 3. 春节活动。
注意：1. 词数80词左右
2 可以适当增加细节。
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原题大意
文章中文大意：我的母亲和健忘（absent-minded and forgetful）,一家四口去祖父母在的省自驾旅游，途中发生了有趣的事情，比如爸爸叫我盯住妈妈，以防她开车的时候睡着：
第一段开头句：我们拿出来新买的帐篷
第二段开头句：我们愉快地欣赏路边的景色
关键词： mom dad David (弟弟) tent camping nice trouble forgetful absent-minded
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